Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog - Office 2004 Mainstream Support Has Been Extended

Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog - Office 2004 Mainstream Support Has Been Extended http://www.officeformac.com/ms/blog    A few months ago we received questions about the scheduled Mainstream Support retirement date for Office 2004 for Mac.  While most customers have upgraded to Office 2008 for Mac, some have remained on Office 2004 in order to take advantage of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), which is supported in Office 2004, but did not make it into Office 2008.  Today I am happy to share that we have extended the Mainstream Support date for Office 2004, originally scheduled to end October 13, 2009, through January 10, 2012.   The date has been extended to 2012 specifically to ensure continuous cross-platform compatibility for Office 2004 customers reliant on VBA until support for VBA is released in the next version of Office for Mac. This extension does not change the 5-year support policy for other Office for Mac products, including future versions.  Nor does it affect any other Microsoft products, including Office on the Windows platform. With the additional support, we will continue delivering all the types of support associated with Mainstream Support, including security updates and non-security bug fixes.   We’re excited to be returning support for VBA in the next version of Office for Mac, scheduled for availability in the 2010 US holiday season.  We’re also continuing our policy of supporting Office 2004 and Office 2008 side-by-side, so customers can take advantage of new features of Office, while keeping the older version around for documents containing VBA macros.  We appreciate customers’ patience during this transition.   Thanks,   Mike Tedesco    Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:10:42 GMT Web Crossing(r) Unix-v6.4 built Jan 14 2010 18:50:13 (source:1372 2010-01-14 15:39:31 -0800)/Unix-6.4 (http://webcrossing.com/) http://backend.userland.com/rss